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Creating a personal development plan can transform an individual’s life. It can help a person get in touch with their internal feelings, determine exactly who they want to be, and how they want to live their life. A personal development plan is often used by younger individuals that are constantly bombarded by peer pressure. However, adults can benefit greatly by creating their own personal development plan, to take the single step forward to transforming a life.

When you don't feel good about yourself, that creates a lot of problems. You work starts to suffer, and your relationships start to suffer. After all, if you can't get along with yourself, how can other people? Here are some tips to help you start feeling better about yourself so that you can start living life again.

The first thing you need to do is to figure out why you don't feel good about yourself.

Your family and friends can either be a great resource to your own personal development or they can be detrimental to your growth. 

When I speak about family, I generally consider these to be people who are related to you and with whom you have close contact. They can include your mother, father, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. Your own children as well as your spouse or life partner are also considered family.

Building healthy relationships with others is one of the most important things that everyone should focus on. Sometimes it is hard because people go about it the wrong way and wind up breaking relationships instead of building them. A lot of times, something unintentional causes this breakdown, and irreparable damage is done. Relationships need to be strengthened in order weather storms that come along. People are not going to getting along with their family or friends all the time, but if the relationships have a good foundation, small rifts can always be mended.

Everyone needs goals in life. Goals can help us improve our personality, our way of life, and our relationships. Setting goals is easy enough, but the real challenge is reaching them. How can you reach your goals?

The first step in reaching your goals is to overcome fear of failure.  If we start out thinking negatively, we likely won't get very far in our efforts to reach our goals. In fact, we may not even set goals in the first place. Fear of failure can sometimes prevent us from doing this.

Negative thoughts or past "failures" may overwhelm us. But if we keep thinking back to past "failures", were these really failures after all? Did you learn something that you can now put into practice or avoid the next time?

I recognize that every individual feels depressed at one point or another in their lifetime. However, for me it was chronic, and something that never went away. I had seen doctors that prescribed medications, therapist that wanted to clear my head, and friends that tried everything to make me feel better. It was not until I took the initiative on my own, and realized that there were natural ways I could feel better, that my depression finally went away.